Human rights in the Arab world : indepedent voices / edited by Anthony Tirado Chase and Amr Hamzawy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Human rights and agency in the Arab world / Anthony Chase -- The tail and the dog : constructing Islam and human rights in political context / Anthony Chase -- A question of human rights ethics : defending the Islamists / Bahey el-Din Hassan -- Globalization and human rights : on a current debate among Arab intellectuals / Amr Hamzawy -- Transnational human rights networks and human rights in Egypt / Neil Hicks -- Women, citizenship, and civil society in the Arab world / Valentine M. Moghadam -- Human rights in the Arab world : reflections on the challenges facing human rights activism / Hanny Megally -- Human rights NGOs and the "foreign funding debate" in Egypt / Nicola Pratt -- Justice in heaven / Eyad El Sarraj -- Some Yemeni ideas about human rights / Sheila Carapico -- Got rights? Public interest litigation and the Egyptian human rights movement / Tamir Moustafa -- When the time is ripe : the struggle to create an institutional culture of human rights in Morocco / Susan Waltz and Lindsay Benstead -- Conclusion : Normative and political dimensions of contemporary Arab debates on human rights / Amr Hamzawy -- Appendix 1 : Documents -- Appendix 2 : Treaty ratifications, notable reservations, understandings, and declarations / Anthony Chase and Kyle M. Ballard.